Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.